MANILA, Philippines – The room assignments for ECE and ECT board exams April 2020 or the Electronics Engineer and Electronics Technician licensure exams are released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) Board of Electronics Engineering few days before the licensure exam.
The ECE and ECT board exams are scheduled to take place on April 1 & 2, 2020 at PRC testing centers in NCR, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Legazpi, Lucena and Tacloban.
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ECE is one of the programs with average number of examinees being administered by PRC. In the most recent exams conducted on October 2019, 2,460 out of 4,977 (49.43%) examinees passed the Electronics Engineering while 2,589 out of 3,775 passed the Electronics Technician licensure exams.
EXAMINATION REMINDERS
As posted by PRC, examinees shall bring the following requirements on examination proper. The Notice of Admission (NOA), Official Receipt, Pencils No. 1 or 2/ Black ink ballpen, metered stamped mailing envelope, long brown and plastic/transparent envelopes.
PRC reminds examinees to report before 6:30 in the morning on the said date because late comers will not be admitted, examination fees for late examinees will also be forfeited.
Examinees are advised to verify their application number on the day of examination from room watchers/proctors assigned to the room.
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ROOM ASSIGNMENTS
Below are the program and list of room assignments for the testing locations mentioned in the April 2020 ECE/ECT board exams, courtesy of PRC:
Electronics Engineer
- NCR
- Baguio
- Cagayan de Oro
- Cebu
- Davao
- Legazpi
- Lucena
- Tacloban
Electronics Technician
- NCR
- Baguio
- Cagayan de Oro
- Cebu
- Davao
- Legazpi
- Lucena
- Tacloban
DRESS CODE
Examinees shall adhere to the attire set by the Professional Regulation Commission.
For male examinees, plain white polo shirt with collar without any seal, logo or marks partnered with decent pants or slacks. For female, plain white blouse or shirt with collar without any seal, logo or marks partnered with decent skirt or slacks.
PROHIBITED ITEMS
Take note of the prohibitions during the exams. These include bringing of books, notes, review materials and other printed materials containing coded information; programmable calculators; gadgets which include cellular phones, smartwatch, ear plugs and related electronic devices; any kind of bag. Likewise, PRC will not be responsible for any prohibited items which will be lost during the exams.
COVERAGE OF ECE BOARD EXAMS
The April 2020 Electronics Engineering licensure exams covered the following topics:
- Mathematics;
- Electronics Engineering;
- General Engineering and Applied Sciences;
- Electronics Systems and Technologies
USE OF CALCULATOR
The board emphasized that the use of brands CASIO FX-991ES and CASIO FX-991ES are strictly prohibited, pursuant to Memorandum Circular No. 2018-01;.
Allowed calculators are limited to functions/features including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, trigonometric function, logarithm and exponential functions, whole number or fractional power y of x and polar to rectangular to polar conversions. Likewise, only one (1) calculator per examinee is allowed in examination room and will be thoroughly inspected by proctors for maximum compliance.
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